Jeff Finley

Things have been crazy past few days. I haven’t had a chance to post a new blog or review any movies I’ve seen. I’ve seen some good ones lately (Jeff Who Lives at Home, Senna, and others). But I needed to get some stuff off my chest and talk to you guys.

I found out Katie Aselton was directing films when I read about her most recent film called Black Rock. She’s the wife of one of my favorite directors Mark Duplass (The Puffy Chair, Baghead). I couldn’t see Black Rock yet, so I saw that her directorial debut The Freebie was avaiable on Netflix so I [...]

I saw Project Nim last night, which I had heard a lot about. It kept coming up in many top ten documentary lists this year and it didn’t disappoint. It’s a fascinating look into the 1970′s experiment where they tried to raise a chimp as a human and see if they could teach it sign [...]

Kim and I watched the documentary Life in a Day, which was comprised of user submitted clips from around the world. It was actually really good! I felt so many different emotions from joy, grief, and fear. Some disturbing images of animals getting killed was hard to watch, but it was real. It was real [...]

I had the pleasure of seeing Aaron Katz‘s new film Cold Weather the other night. It was lovely! Aaron was one of the original “mumblecore” directors I got into when I saw Dance Party USA and Quiet City. He doesn’t make nearly as many films as some of the others (looking at you Joe Swanberg), [...]

Wow this was a weird movie. I like weird, so I recommend it. I was impressed by the visuals and the tone of the film. At first I thought the dirty lenses were trying too hard to be hip/retro, but it grew on me. I didn’t really like the characters at all and the story [...]

One of my favorite quotes is from Milton Glaser, he says: And people spend their entire life trying to learn how to draw. And then, after years and years of effort, they discover that they can successfully replicate what’s in front of them. It’s a kind of drawing that appears in all the art classes [...]

I couldn’t sleep last night for fear of having another night terror (long story, should I blog about it?), so I distracted myself by knocking out another movie from my Netflix instant queue with my iPod. I added the film RSO [Registered Sex Offender] to my queue a while back because Andrew Bujalski is in [...]

Over the holiday break, my wife Kim, her brother Greg, and I decided to act out a fantasy of ours. Yep, you guessed it, make a Beastie Boys music video! Kim had long talked about each of us taking a role and rapping our parts to a song. Well we finally had time to do [...]

I was home sick today with a head cold and feeling pretty terrible. This was the perfect opportunity to watch a movie that I know Kim would not want to watch with me and that is Yeast. The film is directed by Mary Bronstein, which happens to be the wife of Frownland director Ronald Bronstein. [...]